Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-14, 15:55

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by Almoststew1990

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I bought an IBM 300PL a while ago, turned out to be dead. Today I stripped it and was pleased to find it had a 6GB HDD! I was expecting much bigger. This will be useful for my DOS projects. HDD Tune benchmarked and health checked out fine. https://i.imgur.com/BCzmuiZl.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 21:59

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by Almoststew1990

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appiah4 wrote: That sounds more like a misaligned read head on the 386's floppy drive than all disks being bad.. I swapped the drives over and yup working now 😀 Tomorrow I will put some games and Phil's benchmark suit on it and have some fun!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 20:56

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by Almoststew1990

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Revolter wrote: Unreal and Omikron: The Nomad Soul have actually become playable with this processor! I have Nomad Soul for the Dreamcast. It looks very interesting (much more interesting than David Cage's later games) but the controls on the Dreamcast are terrible. How does it control with a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 20:49

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by Almoststew1990

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Gah I'm just trying to install DOS but it seems all my floppies are dead! They'll write fine, copy its contents to the desktop fine, but when I put it in my 386 they will fail halfway through the install 🙁

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Re: The Weekend Thread (Fri-Sun)

Posted on 2018-07-13, 20:21

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by Almoststew1990

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Today was my last day at work. I work at a Planning and Engineering company and I move to another firm next monday so a week off! lots of retro activity coming up!

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Re: Recommend me a reasonably priced sound card for my 386

Posted on 2018-07-13, 11:39

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by Almoststew1990

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Thanks for the advice. It looks like I'll get the aztech card as it has a real opl3 chip. One question - there are a few opti based cards. Is this chip compatible with sb16 or is it a completely separate thing?

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Recommend me a reasonably priced sound card for my 386

Posted on 2018-07-13, 06:48

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by Almoststew1990

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I am putting together a 386 PC. Now that it's working I am looking to get a sound card. The games I will be playing are DOS games up to about 1992 roughly. I see that "real" SB cards are prohibitively expensive. I am looking to spend up to £40 on Ebay UK or electromyne etc. What should I be looking …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 22:02

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by Almoststew1990

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Today I set up a CF card for the first time in my first 386. Now it's ready for me to put DOS on it, for the first time on any PC - previously I've only messed with W98 and XP stuff. I haven't used DOS properly since I was about 5 and I doubt that would have been properly!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-08, 19:52

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by Almoststew1990

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I've been trying to upgrade my early XP PC this week. It's got an Nvidia MX440 64Mb 128bit GPU in it, which I got with a broken active cooler. I put a motherboard chipset heatsink on it (it's quite a big one and now takes up two 'slots') but the mounts are a mm or two out, so the mounting pins are …

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Re: What to do with an old computer ?

Posted on 2018-07-06, 18:25

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by Almoststew1990

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I asked this question fairly soon after I got into the hobby. I was told "We store them!". 'What the hell', I thought, 'there's no point in that! Why do the hobby at all!?' A year later I have a cupboard full of old computers stored. huh.

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Re: BUILD LOG - AM386SX PC

Posted on 2018-07-05, 20:28

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by Almoststew1990

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Great Success! I've finally got a good few parts together; ATX to AT power adapter, graphics card, controller card, so I was able to test it out - it booted first time! Luckily I bought a controller card that came with a manual so I could set the jumpers as needed. I attached a floppy drive, wrote …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-07-03, 21:02

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by Almoststew1990

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Put together a (for once) fully functional XP PC solely for writing floppy drives for my DOS PC I am making. Not sure if this happens to anyone else but I set aside my two 400MHz DDR sticks I was going to use, put PC together including filling both RAM slots, test it, put case on, put under desk... …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-07-01, 08:53

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by Almoststew1990

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XIII is a good game, definitely worth picking up if you're enjoying the demo. I also quite like the cell shaded art style but it is a good game in its own right. I've got it on PC.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-06-30, 18:39

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by Almoststew1990

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I was in a local not-quite-junk shop and came across this. It's been there for ages so I picked it up: https://i.imgur.com/czWSzxSh.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/uTXWMjdl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/EMh1mjah.jpg https://i.imgur.com/YIiHfLol.jpg I'm pretty new to DOS and I hear Wing Commander II is very hard …

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Re: Giving windows Vista a second chance

Posted on 2018-06-27, 06:29

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by Almoststew1990

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The first PC I bought with my own money was a laptop with a 1.7GHz single core of some kind, 1Gb of RAM and GMA950 graphics (which probably took away 128mb of that 1024Mb of Ram). That thing was unbelievably slow, I remember trying to play GTA DA on it at 640*480... Bad memories. Windows XP went …

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Re: My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2018-06-26, 20:36

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by Almoststew1990

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When I saw the previous post, I just wanted to see how much bottleneck the cpu would be while having the same cpu and faster graphics card. So I ran the 3dmark03 with my main desktop pc as well to see the difference. test.jpg Good to know my cpu is not holding my back then*! And that's at stock …

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Re: My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2018-06-26, 19:21

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by Almoststew1990

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And here is my main Desktop...

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Re: BUILD LOG - AM386SX PC

Posted on 2018-06-26, 16:10

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by Almoststew1990

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Even though it is a new one apparently?

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2018-06-25, 22:00

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by Almoststew1990

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I benchmarked a couple of netbook tablet things for some reason. ASUS EEE PC - 1.6GHz Atom N270 Single Core; Intel GMA945, 1GB DDR2 - 2822 Points https://i.imgur.com/ajYTh3Wh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZmHsk5O.png Linx 1010B Tablet thing - 1.33/1.66GHz 2C4T; Baytrail graphics of some kind, 2GB DDR3 - …

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Re: My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2018-06-25, 21:35

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by Almoststew1990

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Benchmark all the things!! (that probably shouldn't be benchmarked!) ASUS EEE PC netbook from... 2008 maybe? (The screen is 1024*600, so the bottom bar gets cut off... you can scroll up and down in any full screen application that is *768 :lol: ) https://i.imgur.com/ajYTh3Wh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ …

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